Slade, Kent Weather
About Slade, Kent
Slade emerges as a quiet cluster of dwellings amidst the chalk-ridged topography of the Kentish North Downs. It lies 5.8 miles south-south-east of Sittingbourne (from Sittingbourne: bearing 167°T, OS grid TQ 930 546), and is situated south of Doddington village. The terrain here holds a peculiar stillness, where the low sun catches the flint-knapped walls of older buildings, casting long shadows across the narrow lanes. To the north-north-east, the rise of Sprats Hill marks the horizon, acting as a silent sentinel over the agricultural patchwork that defines the local economy. Beyond the immediate boundaries of Slade, the landscape folds into the expansive beauty of the Kent Downs, an area where the air feels sharper and the horizon wider. The soil, rich with the mineral dust of the underlying chalk, supports a vegetation that clings tenaciously to the slopes, surviving the seasonal shifts of the southern weather. Residents of Slade maintain a connection to this ancient, undulating geology, as the rhythmic cycle of the seasons dictates the pace of life far more than any modern artifice. Walking the paths toward the nearby Cherry Downs, one finds that the silence is rarely absolute, broken only by the wind moving through the hedgerows or the distant, rhythmic turning of earth.
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Live animated radar for Slade and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Slade, Kent Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Slade, Kent, England, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, real-time aviation weather (METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport), precipitation radar and Meteosat satellite imagery. Public safety alerts are sourced from the Met Office National Severe Weather Warning Service (NSWWS), covering wind, rain, snow, ice, fog, thunderstorm and extreme heat warnings. Coastal tide gauge readings are sourced from the Environment Agency National Tide Gauge Network in near real-time (15-minute updates), with marine wave and sea surface temperature data from the Open-Meteo Marine API. Soil temperature, soil moisture and evapotranspiration data are provided for agricultural planning in this hamlet. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Slade includes coordinates 51.25836, 0.765194, in the county of Kent, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Slade is available on the Slade map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Kent weather hub.
Weather data is sourced from the Met Office and the open-source Open-Meteo API, whose ensemble includes the Met Office UKMO model. Severe weather warnings come from the Met Office National Severe Weather Warning Service (NSWWS). River level and tidal data are sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring and National Tide Gauge Network APIs. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov, with a modelled estimate shown where no reporting station is in range. Radar is provided by RainViewer and satellite imagery by EUMETSAT. All data updates automatically on every page visit.